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A Categorical Error: Rethinking 'Drones' as an Analytical Category for Security Policy
Editor’s Note: What is a drone? Some do surveillance, others hunt terrorists, and some models likely to enter air forces are more akin to sophisticated fighter aircraft. Dave Blair, badass warrior intell... -
Part III: Ending the AUMF War
Conventional wisdom holds that our ongoing war against jihadi groups is utterly unlike a war against a traditional state adversary. In my previous post, I argued that this is at least partially untrue: J... -
More on Obama v. Bush on Preemption: Response to Lederman
Marty Lederman says in response to my posts that the big difference between the Bush and Obama preemption doctrines was that the Bush Administration “argued that international law permits the United Stat... -
Sometimes a Name is Only a Name
Daniel Bethlehem says that my claim that the Obama administration has embraced the Bush doctrine of preemption for anticipatory self-defense “misses an essential element.” The essential element I misse... -
Not By Any Other Name: A Response to Jack Goldsmith on Obama's Imminence
Jack has been quick to draw parallels (here and here) between the Bush administration’s doctrine of pre-emption, set out in the September 2002 National Security Strategy, and the Obama administration’s a... -
Obama's Embrace of Bush's Preemption Doctrine
Following up on Ashley’s piece on Brian Egan’s good speech at the ASIL meeting last week, I have a piece at Time explaining that that Egan adopts the Bush administration’s controversial preemption doctri... -
Senators Kelly Ayotte and Mark Kirk Introduce Bills to Halt GTMO Transfers
Hot on the heels of another transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees—this time to Senagal—and amid news that nine more detainees are likely to be transferred in the next two weeks, Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH... -
Killer Finnish Chainsaw Drone and the High-Tech Weapon that Takes it Down
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Two More Detainees Depart GTMO
The New York Times' Charlie Savage reports that the United States military transferred two Libyan detainees to Senegal on Monday. The two men, Omar Khalifa Mohammed Abu Bakr and Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby... -
The ‘Palestinian Idol’ that Hacked Into Israel’s Drones
Nothing is completely secure -- not even the secure communications link between the Israeli Defense Force and its drones. As Small Wars Journal reports: -
This Week's 9/11 Military Commissions Hearings Cancelled
Army Col. James Pohl, the military judge presiding over the 9/11 military commissions trial at Guantanamo Bay, abruptly canceled this week's hearings on Friday, April 1st. (Insert obligatory no April Foo... -
The ETF and the Legality of U.S. Intervention in Syria under International Law
On Friday, the Pentagon announced that U.S. forces had killed senior ISIS commander Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, known as “Haji Imam.” According to reports, U.S.
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